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The week's best invented words
Nov 23, 2008 04:30 AM
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- WAISTED, adj.:
- what overeaters become. Example: "Man, did I ever get waisted at the buffet last night!" (Roy Robertson, Toronto)
- CLAPATHY, n.:
- what an audience feels when it grows weary of clapping." Example: "I applauded at the beginning, but that grad ceremony went on so long, I got clapathy." (www.urbandictionary.com)
- MONOTASKING, n.:
- "performing one task at a time." (www.wordspy.com)
- MONONYMOUS, adj.:
- being so famous, you need use only one name (e.g. Madonna). (www.wordspy.com)
- BARMUDA TRIANGLE, n.:
- "a concentration of bars or nightclubs on a street, at an intersection, or in a neighbourhood." (www.doubletongued.org)
- OMNIVOLENT, adj.:
- "uncertain about absolutely everything; hesitant to move in any direction at all." (www.unwords.com)
- PRESENTEEISM, n.: the condition that arises when employees are so worried about their jobs that they won't take any time off. (buzzwhack.com)







